ww2

Hi everybody, this is my first post on this forum, so firstly I briefly introduce myself. I'm Italian and live in Milan. I’m sixty and I retired from business two years ago, so now I some time to dedicate to my hobbies. My interest is in history and WW2 aviation (mostly). My most recent...

Does anyone have any information about US aircraft used by 100 Group of RAF Bomber Command, or indeed about 100 Group in general?:rolleyes:

I am researching my family history and my great uncle, Jack Erwin, was an aircraft mechanic and inspector for Boeing in Portland Oregon duing WW2. I have letters from him describing the planes and their work on them - although he was very careful to keep the critical details all very...

During World War 2 the Nazi soldiers besides their rifles had also cameras handy and made a lot of photos of the conquered territories. Such pictures were banned in Soviet Russia because they didn’t fit in the official agenda. According to Soviet propaganda Nazis were not much better than wild...

USS Whipple DD-217, a WWI and WW2 Flush Deck Destroyer, shown at Kiel Canal in Germany, September 1927.

i hope this one got through.

Desert Spits with large air coolers taking off from a scratch airfirld in Libya.

The original of this my very first aviation has been sold. I tried to get the feel of what it was like to be in the situation suggested by the title. The unusual shape of the canvas really added somehting.

Al recent oil painting of a Sunderland and HMS Warspite on a Malta convoy.

Although the original has been sold I have uploaded this as an example of how little subject matter you can have to still make an exciting painting. Imagine (as I did) I was a young boy standing on a dune watching these two come towards me!